On Jan 8, 8:41 pm, pansz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> It is not technically safe, but it is socially safe.
>
> All script are open-source and freely for download. if there's anything
> malicious it will be known to the community and the author's reputation
> suddenly falls.
>
> It is very easy to check the source code to see if its doing anything
> nasty. So in the open-source world the scripts are "socially safe".
Sure, unless you're the first sucker to try it out.
You should still check any scripts or patches from a source you don't
necessarily trust for malicious content. Colorscheme files distributed
with Vim should be fine, but you probably ought to do at least a brief
look-over of any you download on your own. Of course, you'll want to
do that anyway just to see what exactly it defines (and doesn't
define).
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